Preoccupied: indigenizing the museum

Preface / Dare Turner (Yurok Tribe) and Leila Grothe

Controlled burns / Dare Turner (Yurok Tribe) and Leila Grothe

Here we stand before smoke / Heid E. Erdrich (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe)

Artists' perspectives / Julie Buffalohead (Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma), Dana Claxton (Wood Mountain Lakota First Nations), Nicholas Galanin (Lingít and Unangâx), Cannupa Hanska Luger (enrolled Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold and Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, and Lakota heritage), Duane Linklater (Omaskêko Ininiwak from Moose Cree First Nation), Alan Michelson (Six Nations of the Grand River), Caroline Monnet (Anishinaabe/French), Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache), Kevin Pourier (Oglala Lakota), Rose B. Simpson (Santa Clara Pueblo), Kay WalkingStick (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma), Dyani White Hawk (Sičáǧu Lakota)

Bayley's story / Dare Turner (Yurok Tribe)

Survivance, rematriation, and museum collections / heather ahtone (Choctaw/Chickasaw Nation)

Artists' perspectives

The Hovitos' story / Dare Turner (Yurok Tribe)

Pueblo Jones and the Black Mirrors / Dale Deforest (Din©♭ (Navajo) Nation), Lee Francis IV (Pueblo of Laguna), Weyodi OldBear (Comanche Nation of Oklahoma)

Prince Lightfoot's story / Dare Turner (Yurok Tribe)

There are people here : reinstalling Indigenous arts at the Denver Art Museum / John Lukavic

Artists' works

Director's afterword / Asma Naeem, Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director of the Baltimore Museum of Art

Works in the exhibitions

Acknowledgments / Dare Turner (Yurok Tribe) and Leila Grothe

Contributors